Daily Wisdom Plan

¹To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O LORD the king will delight in Your strength, And in Your salvation how greatly will he rejoice!

²You have given him his heart's desire, And You have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

³For You meet him with blessings of good things; You set a crown of pure gold on his head.

⁴He asked life of You, And You gave it to him, Long life forever and evermore.

⁵His glory is great because of Your victory; Splendor and majesty You bestow upon him.

⁶For You make him most blessed [and a blessing] forever; You make him joyful with the joy of Your presence.

⁷For the king [confidently] trusts in the LORD, And through the lovingkindness (faithfulness, goodness) of the Most High he will never be shaken.

⁸Your hand will reach out and defeat all your enemies; Your right hand will reach those who hate you.

⁹You will make them as [if in] a blazing oven in the time of your anger; The LORD will swallow them up in His wrath, And the fire will devour them.

¹⁰Their offspring You will destroy from the earth, And their descendants from the sons of men.

¹¹For they planned evil against You; They devised a [malevolent] plot And they will not succeed.

¹²For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat]; You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.

¹³Be exalted, LORD, in Your strength; We will sing and praise Your power.

¹To the Chief Musician; set to [the tune of] Aijeleth Hashshahar (The Doe of the Dawn). A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

²O my God, I call out by day, but You do not answer; And by night, but I find no rest nor quiet.

³But You are holy, O You who are enthroned in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered].

⁴In You our fathers trusted [leaned on, relied on, and were confident]; They trusted and You rescued them.

⁵They cried out to You and were delivered; They trusted in You and were not disappointed or ashamed.

⁶But I am [treated as] a worm [insignificant and powerless] and not a man; I am the scorn of men and despised by the people.

⁷All who see me laugh at me and mock me; They [insultingly] open their lips, they shake their head, saying,

⁸"He trusted and committed himself to the LORD, let Him save him. Let Him rescue him, because He delights in him."

⁹Yet You are He who pulled me out of the womb; You made me trust when on my mother's breasts.

¹⁰I was cast upon You from birth; From my mother's womb You have been my God.

¹¹Do not be far from me, for trouble is near; And there is no one to help.

¹²Many [enemies like] bulls have surrounded me; Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

¹³They open wide their mouths against me, Like a ravening and a roaring lion.

¹⁴I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted [by anguish] within me.

¹⁵My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery; And my [dry] tongue clings to my jaws; And You have laid me in the dust of death.

¹⁶For [a pack of] dogs have surrounded me; A gang of evildoers has encircled me, They pierced my hands and my feet.

¹⁷I can count all my bones; They look, they stare at me.

¹⁸They divide my clothing among them And cast lots for my garment.

¹⁹But You, O LORD, do not be far from me; O You my help, come quickly to my assistance.

²⁰Rescue my life from the sword, My only life from the paw of the dog (the executioner).

²¹Save me from the lion's mouth; From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.

²²I will tell of Your name to my countrymen; In the midst of the congregation I will praise You.

²³You who fear the LORD [with awe-inspired reverence], praise Him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor Him. Fear Him [with submissive wonder], all you descendants of Israel.

²⁴For He has not despised nor detested the suffering of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from him; But when he cried to Him for help, He listened.

²⁵My praise will be of You in the great assembly. I will pay my vows [made in the time of trouble] before those who [reverently] fear Him.

²⁶The afflicted will eat and be satisfied; Those who [diligently] seek Him and require Him [as their greatest need] will praise the LORD. May your hearts live forever!

²⁷All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, And all the families of the nations will bow down and worship before You,

²⁸For the kingship and the kingdom are the Lord's And He rules over the nations.

²⁹All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship; All those who go down to the dust (the dead) will bow before Him, Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

³⁰Posterity will serve Him; They will tell of the Lord to the next generation.

³¹They will come and declare His righteousness To a people yet to be born—that He has done it [and that it is finished].

¹A Psalm of David. The LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, to guide and to shield me], I shall not want.

²He lets me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still and quiet waters.

³He refreshes and restores my soul (life); He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.

⁴Even though I walk through the [sunless] valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me.

⁵You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You have anointed and refreshed my head with oil; My cup overflows.

⁶Surely goodness and mercy and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, And I shall dwell forever [throughout all my days] in the house and in the presence of the LORD.

¹A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it, The world, and those who dwell in it.

²For He has founded it upon the seas And established it upon the streams and the rivers.

³Who may ascend onto the mountain of the LORD? And who may stand in His holy place?

⁴He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to what is false, Nor has sworn [oaths] deceitfully.

⁵He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, And righteousness from the God of his salvation.

⁶This is the generation (description) of those who diligently seek Him and require Him as their greatest need, Who seek Your face, even [as did] Jacob. Selah.

⁷Lift up your heads, O gates, And be lifted up, ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in.

⁸Who is the King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, The LORD mighty in battle.

⁹Lift up your heads, O gates, And lift them up, ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in.

¹⁰Who is [He then] this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, He is the King of glory [who rules over all creation with His heavenly armies]. Selah.